LMCC open studios

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Since November I’ve had a writer-in-residence gig downtown at One Liberty Plaza through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program. From May 31-June 2 there will be open studios and readings to showcase what we’ve all been up to in the space.

Please come check it out. It’s free & open to the public, but the LMCC requires people to register on their website in order to attend. Brookfield Properties likes to keep their security tight!

Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 7 – 9 pm
Open Hours: Saturday, June 1, 1 – 5 pm
Sunday, June 2, 1 – 6 pm

Participating writers & artists detailed here: http://www.lmcc.net/residencies/workspace/current_session

All of the writers will be reading at Open Texts: Saturday June 1 from 5 – 7 pm
Event details are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/455121521241080/

Babylon makes the rules

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Michael’s round-up of media coverage on the library blog brought the Daily News’ article to my attention. It’s got a lovely quotation that recalls some of what this settlement’s about:

“Remember the anti-authority message of Occupy Wall Street? Remember the backlash over its vague goals and nebulous methods? Surprise! Occupy Wall Street (OWS) just struck a sizeable victory, and it came by working within the system.”
Read more here.

Working within the system.

Babylon makes the rules, but that doesn’t mean we’re incapable of playing by them. 

another poetry month

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Looks like I’ll be reading at the MoMA on April 20th

Transform The World! Poetry Must Be Made by All!

Saturday, April 20, 2013, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Painting and Sculpture Galleries, fourth floor

Barbara Morgan. Martha Graham, Celebration. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 19 x 15 7/16"

Here’s info from the MoMA site:

In celebration of National Poetry Month The Museum of Modern Art presents Transform The World! Poetry Must Be Made by All! For a full hour, the galleries come alive with the sounds of spoken word, as poets read their own works and those of others. The poets, ranging from emerging to established, from conventional to experimental, demonstrate and celebrate the broad range of American poetry today amid great works of postwar modern art in the Museum’s collection. This event is organized by poet Kenneth Goldsmith as part of the Artists Experiment initiative.

Thanks to all the lovelies at Belladonna for inviting me to participate. Full event details here.

Reading at Zinc Bar

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I will be reading at Zinc Bar this Sunday,
March 10th at 6 pm with Amber Stewart.

Zinc Bar is located at 82 West 3rd Street (between Thompson & Sullivan).
Join us!

Occupy Sandy

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Tonight, Wednesday November 28th, Josh Fox’s short film about Hurricane Sandy will be shown somewhere in the East Village, NYC guerrilla style. Text “@ClimateCrime” to the number 23559 to get the exact location for tonight. Dress Warmly.


Occupy Sandy Trailer

It’s been one month since Frankenstorm Sandy struck the coast of the Northeast United States, leaving ruined homes and devastated communities in its wake. Its also been one month since Occupy Sandy leapt into the void left by government agencies and big NGO’s to demonstrate the power, joy, and necessity of mutual aid. New York City will forever be changed by these events, as it should be. Now is the time to break the climate silence, and shine a light on the climate crimes that made Sandy inevitable.

Join academy-award nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland), Occupy Sandy Relief organizers, 350.org, The Other 98%, and The Illuminatorfor a Guerrilla Premiere of Fox’s new short film “Occupy Sandy: A Human Response to the New Realities of Climate Change,” which viscerally shows the damage left behind by the storm, highlights the heroic grassroots efforts of Occupy activists, and draws the connections between the storm, climate change, and the reckless greed of the fossil fuel industry.After the film, we will hear testimonials from victims of Hurricane Sandy, who themselves are now drawing these same connections. The time is long overdue for us all to make these connections, and to demand that our elected officials and the mainstream media do the same.

If you want to come, join our cell phone text loop by texting @climatecrime to 23559, or follow the hashtag #climatecrime on Twitter. We will keep you updated. What we can tell you now is to dress warm, bring hot beverages, be prepared to move and to be moved…

AFTER-PARTY: Occupy Sandy Volunteer Appreciation Night! RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/555004677848378/

We will be accepting donations of heaters, warm socks, flashlights, canned food, diapers & baby formula at the event. Please bring something to share with the people affected by Hurricane Exxon.

[event announcement lifted directly from fb event page]

the water’s on fire!

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Here’s some of what we’re doing in NYC to help stop fracked gas coming to town via Spectra Pipeline: http://occupythepipeline.blogspot.com/

Obviously though, all our grievances are connected. Today was a big day of direct action against construction of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas and Oklahoma.

Here are some links to other organizations and ongoing actions:

http://saneenergyproject.org/
stopthefrackattack.org
tarsandsblockade.org
Friends of the Earth
Waging Nonviolence
No Gas Pipeline
Marcellus Earth First!
Don’t Frack with NY

what’s been going on?

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Atlantic PacificSubway-wise, the MTA’s officially announced a name change for our beloved hub. It will always be Atlantic-Pacific to me.

Poetry-wise, some of my poems were in the April edition of the Brooklyn Rail.

Library-wise, we filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg, Ray Kelly, the NYPD, the Dept of Sanitation, and the City of New York. w00t! The case is Occupy Wall Street et al. v. Michael Bloomberg et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-4129. The full complaint is here.

Michele said it well in her post, “We believe that the raid and its aftermath violated our First-Amendment rights to free expression, Fourth-Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure, and Fourteenth-Amendment rights to due process, as well as the laws of the City of New York regarding the vouchsafing of seized property.” What’s most exciting to me is what we might turn up in the discovery process. As Norman Siegel points out, the suit “not only addresses the seizure and destruction of the books, but it also seeks to show why, how, and who planned the raid on Zuccotti Park.”